Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 109

We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

Quote of the week…

“There’s a healing power in the act of creating.”

— Unattributed

Inspiration of the week: Sarah Raphael Balme

Sarah Raphael Balme is a British artist whose richly patterned paintings explore narrative, colour, and dreamlike imagery. Inspired by folk art, nature, and storytelling, her work features figures, animals, and plants across painting, ceramics, and textiles.

A graduate of Chelsea College of Art, she has exhibited internationally and collaborated with design brands, creating vibrant, layered compositions that balance decorative surface with imaginative, often surreal themes. Her oil paintings with a narrative theme are mainly done in oil sometimes gouche.

She grew up surrounded by artists, her mother was a painter and her dad wrote academic books. Her childhood was spent in a bohemian North London house that influenced her career as an artist.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Olga Shevolya

Olga Shevchenko Shevolya is a contemporary Russian artist.

Currently she is engaged in painting and illustration, creating paintings with light and spontaneous subjects that reveal the depth and poetry of life. She enjoys working with watercolors, transparencies, embroidery and experimenting with printing inks. When creating illustrations, she loves to play and experiment with form and texture. She expresses her admiration for the beauty of the plant world, its uniqueness and diversity. It fascinates, inspires and fills her with delight. Her illustrations are about the relationship between nature and man and about the human soul through the prism of the plant world.